[lit-ideas] walmart hring for global ethics department
- From: Eternitytime1@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 00:17:53 EDT
Hi,
Well, it might be filled by now...this was from March 2006.
But...if you know someone looking for a position in the Ethics world...there
is now to be a Global Ethics Dept.
Best,
Marlena in Missouri
_http://www.showmenews.com/2006/Mar/20060303Busi004.asp_
(http://www.showmenews.com/2006/Mar/20060303Busi004.asp)
Wal-Mart advertises ethics job
Retailer looks for âintegrityâ for post.
The Associated Press
Published Friday, March 3, 2006
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to hire a director of global ethics, a
restructured position aimed at ensuring the retailerâs code of conduct is
applied
across a growing global network of more than 6,200 stores and 1.6 million
employees in 15 countries, the company said yesterday.
The job advertisement comes a year after embarrassing revelations that
Wal-Martâs No. 2 executive, Tom Coughlin, had been pilfering company money
and
goods for years for his personal benefit.
Coughlin, 57, pleaded guilty Jan. 31 to fraud and tax charges for stealing
money, gift cards and merchandise from the worldâs largest retailer, based in
Bentonville, Ark.
Wal-Mart also faces a class-action lawsuit in California claiming it
discriminated against female employees and is a repeated target of ethics
allegations by organized labor and other critics.
Wal-Mart spokeswoman Sarah Clark said the ethics post was previously held by
someone who held that job as well as other responsibilities.
"It has been restructured so that this person is going to look after only
this" area, "as opposed to this ... and other things," Clark said.
In a job description posted on the Web site of executive search consultants
Martha Montag Brown & Associates, Wal-Mart said itâs hunting an experienced
professional to lead its global ethics strategy and oversee ethics-related
infrastructure, administration and training.
The director would run the existing Global Ethics Office. The office was set
up in 2004 to give employees advice on complying with ethics guidelines that
were updated that year and to run the companyâs Ethics Helpline.
"Able and willing to take a difficult or unpopular position if necessary," is
one of the attributes listed under personal qualifications.
Wal-Mart also wants candidates to have an "impeccable reputation for
integrity and judgment" and to be politically savvy.
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